A human pandemic like that would end up with at least half of the population resisting the cure.
Coincidentally, I think I might’ve figured a solution to the climate change.
Infectious magic mushrooms would be the greatest human pandemic. The last one, too.
This same fungal infection causes the males to have sex until their butts fall off, so I’m pretty sure some humans would seek it out.
this is assuming the cults haven’t rolled out before the cure
it’s so trivially easy to create a psychedelics based cult, and now suddenly everyone is experiencing the same? My friend it’d be a dawn of a new religion
Step 1: tell the internet cicadas contain drugs.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: guy admitted to hospital with a can of Raid up his ass.
tiktok cicada drug #challenge
Cicada3302 space boogaloo
Just read the Wikipedia entry for that fungus. I saw cathinone was mentioned, but I did not see anything about psilocybin
Neither of these links state psilocybin is in the fungus.
Actually you’re right, but I found a better source: https://www.science.org/content/article/psychedelic-keeps-cicada-flying-even-after-fungus-has-destroyed-its-abdomen
From your second link:
Here we report the discovery, through global and targeted metabolomics supported by metagenomics and proteomics, of the plant amphetamine, cathinone, in Massospora cicadina-infected periodical cicadas, and the mushroom tryptamine, psilocybin, in M. platypediae- and M. levispora-infected annual cicadas.
It appears that the two chemicals come from two different fungi. Or I could be misinterpreting that.
Edit: PS. I appreciate all of the content that you post. I just thought this was an interesting subject.
No worries. I am half distracted tonight :)
There we are. Thank you for your diligence!
Wait, where’s the cicade recipe I saw a few days ago?
Psilocybin is somewhat unstable as a chemical, so heat will cause it to break down pretty fast, so be careful how you cook them.
I don’t really like rare cicadas, so I guess that’s not going to work then.
This is how I wanna go
Drug bug!
You will eat the bugs
Mother Nature’s equivelant of drenching vegetables in honey. “C’mon humanity, they are sustainable! For the love of Gaia, eat them…”
Party 'til you drop apparently according to the non-highlighted sentence.
… … …so are we eating the cicadas, or smoking them?
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Not the worst way to go if you have to be slowly eaten alive by a fungus.
Not too long ago, I saw a (cruel) recipe for cicadas here on lemmy!
